0:07 - Transition into the Military Intelligence Service / Part of Class of 1943 at Military Intelligence Service Language School, Camp Savage

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Keywords: 522nd Field Artillery Battalion; Camp Savage; Camp Shelby; commission; enemy; Haole; interpreter; Military Intelligence Service; Military Intelligence Service Language School; military leaders; MIS; Nisei; Pacific War; study; test of loyalty; translator

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5:22 - Learned Japanese military language ("Heigo") / Importance of the Kibei in the Military Intelligence Service

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Keywords: "Heigo"; ambush; Camp Savage; diaries; Japanese language school; Japanese military language; Kibei; letters; Merrill's Marauders; military commands; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; ROTC; Roy Matsumoto; translation

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8:11 - Locals in Minneapolis, Minnesota were very welcoming to the Nisei soldiers

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Keywords: "true Americans"; Camp Savage; church; Earl Finch; Haole; immigrants; Military Intelligence Service Language School; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Mississippi; Northwest; Old Country

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10:24 - Sent to Florida for Signal Intelligence training / Team shipped overseas to China-Burma-India Theater

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Keywords: 10th Army Airforce; 6th Army Airforce Radio Squadrant Mobile; analysis; boat; Bombay; Burma; China-Burma-India; electronic eavesdropping; Florida; graduation; Japanese communications; Military Intelligence Service Language School; overseas; radio interception; Signal Intelligence; Signal Intelligence Unit; Southwest Pacific; training; translation; Wilmington Port

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13:29 - Experience aboard an Army Transport Ship to India / Difficulty learning Japanese language

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Antarctic Ocean; Army Transport Ship; Australia; cave flushing; India; interpreter; interrogation; Japanese language; overseas; passenger ship; Prisoners of War; seasickness; translation; USS Lureline

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16:24 - Nisei soldiers participation in The Fall of Michina -- Efforts of Merrill's Marauders

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Keywords: 10th Army Air Force; Assam; Bombay; Burma; Burma Road; cargo plane; Chiang Kai-Shek; dead bodies; enemy lines; Fall of Michina; ground troops; guerrilla tactics; India; Japanese communications; jump off point; Ledo Road; Merrill's Marauders; Michina; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; Nisei; September; train

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19:40 - Interception of radio traffic in Burma -- Ears of the operation

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Keywords: airfield; American sector; British forces; British sector; Burma; China-Burma-India Theater; comfort girls; eavesdropping; ground troops; Japanese Air Force; Japanese army; Japanese communication; Japanese fighter planes; Japanese soldiers; jungle; listening station; Mandalay; Merrill's Marauders; Nisei; Northen Burma; POW camp; prisoners of war; radio frequency; radio interception; radio traffic

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24:51 - First time seeing a captured Japanese soldier

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Keywords: Burma; comfort girls; drafted; farmers; Japanese Army; Japanese soldier; Korean; Mars Task Force; Merrill's Marauders; Nisei; Pearl Harbor; POW; POW camp; Prisoners of War; Prisoners of War camp

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